Career Coaching

What is Career Coaching?

Career Coaching is undertaken when individuals know their career goal or have a career pathway in mind, but want help on HOW to get there. Irrespective of where that person might be in their career journey (i.e., at the beginning, middle to twilight), coaching could be certainly appropriate in assisting them on that journey and keeping them accountable.

Career Guidance

What is Career Guidance?

While coaching generally applies to adults (but not always), for adolescents, it is usually a case of providing career guidance.

There is a difference between coaching and guidance.

Career Guidance is necessary when the individual (the adolescent or the adult) has little or no idea where to head in a career. They lack a career goal.

Often the person knows clearly what they don't want in a career, but have no idea of what might suit them or where they might find their niche. Career guidance therefore is about finding the WHERE. Something to aim for.

As the saying goes, "If you don't know where you're going, how can you expect to get there?"

Effective career guidance and planning can save years and money wasted doing inappropriate courses or unsuitable jobs.

However, it is certainly true that adults are also now seeking career guidance because they might...

be dis-satisfied in their job

want a career change

cannot see a career path in their current job

have never found their "niche"

have been retrenched

feel that "there is more out there" for them

For the adolescentthough, career guidance answers the following questions: